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Sale 5703 - Modern & Contemporary Art
May 20, 2007 10:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$6,000 - 10,000
Price Realized
$9,000
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DAVID HOCKNEY (BRITISH B. 1937) "ILLUSTRATIONS FOR SIX FAIRY TALES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM": PORTFOLIO EDITION D

The dark blue leather bound book with 39 etchings in text, inscribed "GRIMM Ed. D 19/100" in ink on verso of etchings; and dedicated and signed in ink on the frontispiece 'to Dick and Ann Moser / David Hockney' and signed in pencil on the justification page and numbered 19/100 and annotated "Ed D", each sheet accompanied by six framed etchings: A Black Cat Leaping, Princess In The Tower, The Enchantress With The Baby Rapunzel, The Sexton Disguised As A Ghost Stood As Still As A Stone, The Haunted Castle and The Glass Mountain, each signed in pencil on the recto, numbered verso, on Hodgkinson handmade paper, Petersburg Press, publisher; Print Shop, printer; with accompanying dark blue leather folio, slipcase and miniature book.
[Scottish Arts Council 70-180].

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